I mean, assuming a majority of people are stupid (we can assume this) you are more likely to pick a random not stupid person than you are to have a majority non-stupid voter base. Considering with a majority stupid people the majority will be stupid 100% of the time, but if there is even one none stupid person suddenly you have only a 99.9999% chance of randomly selecting a non-stupid.

After looking into it more, I found that even long rifles reach the highest velocity after leaving the barrel, usually it is not long after leaving the barrel, usually about 18 inches, the reason gave was that although there is a peak in pressure at about 5miliseconds where the bullet travels about 4inches after the round is fired, the bullet is not at its fastest because it had to go from not moving to moving relatively slow, even as pressure is greatly reduced after it leaves the muzzle there is still enough to counter the drag, and the projectile will continue to build up velocity for about ten miliseconds after its peak, which brings it to a little over 34inches from its starting point, given most rifles are between 16inch barrel and 26 this still leaves at least 8 inches after the barrel for the bullet to increase velocity which depending on the caliber, grain, ect, this can be near 1000 fps (between300-500fps most likely for this particular round) . So if he had held the gun against a book and fired like execution style, he would have had a bullet traveling slower than had he been shooting from a little bit of distance. The drop in a 50 cal bullets velocity is very little in any realistic range that his girlfriend would have shot him at. The drop at 50yards is about 100fps

In short barrel handguns I can say with 100 per cent certainty yes, it reaches its peak feet from the muzzle, I do not know all the science behind it but I can show you with a ruger lc9 if you would like